Schroeder v. State

This case raises the legal question of whether one can be guilty, as a party to the crime, of armed robbery with concealed identity when he himself was not masked during the commission of the offense.

The basic facts out of which this question arises are that on June 19, 1976, plaintiff in error Frederick Walter Schroeder (hereinafter defendant) entered the C. R. Joynt Tavern in the city of South Milwaukee, sat down at the bar and ordered a beer. A short time later a man wearing a mask and carrying a gun entered the tavern. At this point defendant also pulled out a gun and the two men demanded…